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Automation and polarization
Acemoglu, Daron; Löbbing, Jonas - 2023
advantage in the most complex tasks relative to capital, and because the wages of the least skilled workers are sufficiently low … relative to their productivity and the effective cost of capital in low-complexity tasks. Minimum wages and other sources of … higher wages at the bottom make interior automation less likely. Starting with interior automation, a reduction in the cost …
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When the minimum wage really bites hard : impact on top earners and skill supply
Gregory, Terry; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2020
-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum wage, but negative effects for high-skilled top earners in East Germany, where the …
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Promotion prospects and within-level wage growth : a decomposition of the part-time penalty for women
Ilieva, Boryana - 2023
I study the life-cycle pattern of part-time employment and its impact on wage growth in female careers. I show that the part-time wage penalty consists of two essential components: i) a penalty for promotions and ii) a within-career-level wage penalty. Using dynamic structural modeling, I...
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Has earnings inequality in Germany changed in the 1980's?
Steiner, Viktor; Wagner, Kersten - 1996
The development of the West German earnings distribution in the 1980's is analysed on the basis of both the German Socio-Economic Panel and micro-data from the Employment Register of the Federal Labour Office. We find that earnings inequality in Germany has increased very little in the 1980's,...
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The dynamics of earnings in Germany : evidence from social security records
Bönke, Timm; Giesecke, Matthias; Lüthen, Holger - 2015
This paper uncovers ongoing trends in idiosyncratic earnings volatility across generations by decomposing residual earnings auto-covariances into a permanent and a transitory component. We employ data on complete earnings life cycles for prime age men born 1935 through 1974 that covers earnings...
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Importing inequality: immigration and the top 1 percent
Advani, Arun; Koenig, Felix; Pessina, Lorenzo; Summers, Andy - 2020
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Love and money with inheritance : marital sorting by labor income and inherited wealth in the modern partnership
Pasteau, Etienne; Zhu, Junyi - 2018
As the importance of capital is resurging in rich countries, the dynamics of wealth inequality are being increasingly affected by inheritance distribution. The relative attraction derived from inherited wealth and acquired human capital in marital choices may be undergoing change. We expand the...
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How do workers adjust when firms adopt new technologies?
Genz, Sabrina; Gregory, Terry; Janser, Markus; Lehmer, … - 2021
We investigate how workers adjust to firms’ investments into new digital technologies, including artificial intelligence, augmented reality, or 3D printing. For this, we collected novel data that links survey information on firms’ technology adoption to administrative social security data....
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Working from home : heterogeneous effects on hours worked and wages
Arntz, Melanie; Ben Yahmed, Sarra; Berlingieri, Francesco - 2019
mothers. Hourly wages, however, increase with WfH take-up among fathers, but not among mothers unless they change employer …
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The long-term earnings' effects of a credit market disruption
Adamopoulou, Effrosyni; De Philippis, Marta; Sette, Enrico - 2023
This paper studies the long-term consequences on firms and workers of the credit crunch triggered by the 2007-2008 global financial crisis. Relying on a unique matched bank-employer-employee administrative dataset, we construct a firm-specific credit supply shock and examine firms’ and...
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